UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 6-K

 

 

Report of Foreign Private Issuer

Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16

under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the month of September 2022

Commission File Number: 001-14550

 

 

China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited

(Translation of Registrant’s name into English)

 

 

Board Secretariat’s Office

5/F, Block A2, Northern District, CEA Building

36 Hongxiang 3rd Road, Minhang District

Shanghai, China 200335

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

      China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited
     

(Registrant)

Date    September 16, 2022     By   

/s/ Wang Jian

        Name: Wang Jian
        Title: Company Secretary

 

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Certain statements contained in this announcement may be regarded as “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual performance, financial condition or results of operations of the Company to be materially different from any future performance, financial condition or results of operations implied by such forward-looking statements. Further information regarding these risks, uncertainties and other factors is included in the Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements included in this announcement represent the Company’s views as of the date of this announcement. While the Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments may cause the Company’s views to change, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements, unless required by applicable laws. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company’s views as of any date subsequent to the date of this announcement.

 

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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this announcement, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this announcement.

 

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INSIDE INFORMATION

OVERSEAS REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENT

ANNOUNCEMENT ON

OPERATING DATA FOR AUGUST 2022

 

This overseas regulatory announcement is made pursuant to Rule 13.09 and Rule 13.10B of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Listing Rules”) and the Inside Information Provisions (as defined under the Listing Rules) under Part XIVA of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong).

China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited (the “Company”) and all members of the board of directors confirm that the information contained in this announcement is true, accurate and complete, and no misrepresentations, misleading statements or material omissions are contained herein.

 

I.

OPERATIONS

In August 2022, the Company’s passenger transportation capacity (measured by available seat- kilometres) increased by 35.10% year-on-year, among which, the passenger transportation capacity of its domestic routes increased by 37.49% year-on-year, while the passenger transportation capacity of its international and regional routes decreased by 6.61% and 94.95% year-on-year, respectively; passenger traffic volume (measured by revenue passenger-kilometres) increased by 62.14% year-on-year, among which, the passenger traffic volume of its domestic routes increased by 65.86% year-on-year, while the passenger traffic volume of its international and regional routes decreased by 9.48% and 93.40% year-on-year, respectively; and passenger load factor increased by 11.18 percentage points year-on-year to 67.01%, among which, the passenger load factor of its domestic and regional routes increased by 11.50 and 12.59 percentage points year-on-year, respectively, while the passenger load factor of its international routes decreased by 1.86 percentage points year-on-year.

 

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In relation to freight transportation, the freight transportation business of the Company includes passenger aircraft cargo business under conventional circumstances (mainly passenger aircraft bellyhold space business) and passenger aircraft cargo business under unconventional circumstances (mainly “Passenger-to-Cargo Conversion” business), and such business is under exclusive operation by China Cargo Airlines Co., Ltd. In August 2022, freight traffic volume (measured by revenue freight tonne-kilometres) increased by 37.87% year-on-year.

In August 2022, the Company launched new routes, such as Qingdao — Osaka, and Zhengzhou — Dalian.

 

II.

FLEET STRUCTURE

In August 2022, the Company introduced two A320 series aircraft and one A350 series aircraft, and did not retire any aircraft. As of the end of August 2022, the Company operated a total of 757 aircraft, including 266 self-owned aircraft, 272 aircraft under finance lease and 219 aircraft under operating lease.

Details of the fleet structure were as follows:

 

                              (Units)  

No.

  Model    Self-owned     

Under
finance

lease

     Under
operating
lease
     Sub-total  
 

Wide-body passenger aircraft

     44        50        5        99  
1  

B777 series

     10        10        0        20  
2  

B787 series

     3        7        0        10  
3  

A350 series

     1        12        0        13  
4  

A330 series

     30        21        5        56  
 

Narrow-body passenger aircraft

     220        215        214        649  
5  

A320 series

     118        143        100        361  
6  

B737 series

     102        72        114        288  
 

Regional aircraft

     2        7        0        9  
7  

ARJ series

     2        7        0        9  
 

Total

     266        272        219        757  

Note: The three business aircraft of the Company were not included in the above fleet structure.

 

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III.

MAJOR OPERATING DATA

 

    

Amount
completed in

August
2022

     Amount
completed in
August
2021
    

Year-on-

year
increase

   

Total
amount
completed in

August
2022

     Total
amount
completed in
August
2021
     Year-on-
year
increase
 

Passenger Transportation Data ASK (available-seat- kilometres) (millions)

     12,162.67        9,002.78        35.10     67,676.86        111,271.94        -39.18

— Domestic routes

     11,847.09        8,616.71        37.49     65,538.83        108,039.65        -39.34

— International routes

     313.01        335.17        -6.61     1,902.47        2,749.77        -30.81

— Regional routes

     2.57        50.90        -94.95     235.56        482.53        -51.18

RPK (revenue passenger-kilometres) (millions)

     8,149.67        5,026.25        62.14     42,508.97        78,098.99        -45.57

— Domestic routes

     7,963.72        4,801.60        65.86     41,410.10        76,670.26        -45.99

— International routes

     184.57        203.89        -9.48     967.17        1,154.24        -16.21

— Regional routes

     1.37        20.76        -93.40     131.70        274.48        -52.02

Number of passengers carried (thousands)

     5,818.63        3,557.80        63.55     29,572.80        56,718.14        -47.86

— Domestic routes

     5,790.19        3,517.63        64.60     29,336.76        56,355.90        -47.94

— International routes

     27.43        25.79        6.36     147.12        179.94        -18.24

— Regional routes

     1.01        14.37        -92.97     88.92        182.30        -51.22

Passenger load factor (%)

     67.01        55.83        11.18pts       62.81        70.19        -7.38pts  

— Domestic routes

     67.22        55.72        11.50pts       63.18        70.96        -7.78pts  

— International routes

     58.97        60.83        -1.86pts       50.84        41.98        8.86pts  

— Regional routes

     53.37        40.78        12.59pts       55.91        56.88        -0.97pts  

Freight Transportation Data AFTK (available freight tonne-kilometres) (millions)

     545.26        353.62        54.19     4,324.80        6,217.04        -30.44

— Domestic routes

     142.49        128.41        10.96     934.98        2,184.39        -57.20

— International routes

     400.81        222.97        79.76     3,364.91        3,999.72        -15.87

— Regional routes

     1.96        2.25        -12.89     24.92        32.93        -24.32

 

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Amount
completed in

August
2022

    

Amount
completed in

August
2021

    

Year-on-

year
increase

    Total
amount
completed in
August
2022
     Total
amount
completed in
August
2021
    

Year-on-

year
increase

 

RFTK (Revenue freight tonne-kilometres) (millions)

     230.87        167.46        37.87     1,716.48        2,265.64        -24.24

— Domestic routes

     51.97        62.40        -16.71     352.92        554.91        -36.40

— International routes

     178.39        104.40        70.87     1,357.40        1,704.14        -20.35

— Regional routes

     0.51        0.66        -22.73     6.16        6.59        -6.61

Weight of freight carried (million kg)

     61.09        55.22        10.63     425.16        591.97        -28.18

— Domestic routes

     34.98        41.59        -15.89     233.60        380.23        -38.56

— International routes

     25.59        12.96        97.45     185.36        205.11        -9.63

— Regional routes

     0.53        0.67        -20.90     6.21        6.64        -6.48

Freight load factor (%)

     42.34        47.36        -5.02pts       39.69        36.44        3.25pts  

— Domestic routes

     36.47        48.60        -12.12pts       37.75        25.40        12.35pts  

— International routes

     44.51        46.82        -2.31pts       40.34        42.61        -2.27pts  

— Regional routes

     26.13        29.50        -3.37pts       24.71        20.02        4.69pts  

Consolidated Data ATK (available tonne-kilometres) (millions)

     1,639.90        1,163.87        40.90     10,415.72        16,231.51        -35.83

— Domestic routes

     1,208.73        903.91        33.72     6,833.47        11,907.96        -42.61

— International routes

     428.98        253.13        69.47     3,536.13        4,247.20        -16.74

— Regional routes

     2.19        6.83        -67.94     46.12        76.36        -39.60

RTK (revenue tonne-kilometres) (millions)

     938.94        606.42        54.83     5,457.89        9,174.67        -40.51

— Domestic routes

     743.80        481.45        54.49     3,998.26        7,337.46        -45.51

— International routes

     194.50        122.51        58.76     1,441.87        1,806.58        -20.19

— Regional routes

     0.63        2.46        -74.39     17.75        30.64        -42.07

Overall load factor (%)

     57.26        52.10        5.16pts       52.40        56.52        -4.12pts  

— Domestic routes

     61.54        53.26        8.28pts       58.51        61.62        -3.11pts  

— International routes

     45.34        48.40        -3.06pts       40.78        42.54        -1.76pts  

— Regional routes

     28.93        35.98        -7.05pts       38.49        40.12        -1.63pts  

 

  Note:

Freight transportation data only contained data of passenger aircraft bellyhold space and Passenger-to-Cargo Conversion. The table does not contain data of the fleet of cargo aircraft.

 

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IV.

RISK ALERT

The board of directors of the Company hereby reminds investors that the operating data set forth above was compiled in accordance with the Company’s internal information which has not been audited and may be subject to adjustment. The operating data set forth above may differ from the data disclosed in any regular report for the relevant period. The Company reserves its rights to adjust the operating data based on audit findings and the actual situation. The monthly operating data disclosed by the Company only serves as preliminary and periodical data for investors’ reference. Investors are hereby reminded of the investment risks which may result from inappropriate reliance upon or utilisation of the information above.

The COVID-19 pandemic still has a significant impact on the business of the Company, while the time span and severity of which has great uncertainty. Investors are reminded of the risks thereof.

The data set forth above is published on the website of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (www.sse.com.cn), the website of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (www.hkex.com.hk) and the column “Investor Relations” on the website of the Company (www.ceair.com).

 

 

By order of the Board

  CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES CORPORATION LIMITED
  Wang Jian
  Company Secretary
 

Shanghai, the People’s Republic of China
15 September 2022

As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Company include Li Yangmin (Vice Chairman, President), Tang Bing (Director), Lin Wanli (Director), Cai Hongping (Independent non-executive Director), Dong Xuebo (Independent non-executive Director), Sun Zheng (Independent non-executive Director), Lu Xiongwen (Independent non-executive Director) and Jiang Jiang (Employee Representative Director).

 

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